right pizzas, and how much my teen girls are giving me a hard time <<I jest>>

[NoahVale]

5 of us, so hard to decide,
but generally used to go for 2 or 3 pizzas and chips and lots of salad. these are bog standard supermarket pizzas.
after comparing with dd's friends, I have now cut down to 2 pizzas,
occasionally a smattering of chicken nuggs,
still a load of salad and chips
but now apparently chips are wrong.

what is the norm?

When you guys say "salad" what does that mean? A few lettuce leaves?

Mine mostly don't eat salad, so am intrigued. Where i grew up we never had cooked veg & only had salad, but that was a hot climate.

salad = toms, olives, water cress

Salad = spinach, red/yellow bell pepper slices, cherry tomatoes, cucumber.

It's a pizza each!

Those salads sound nice. Not a chance 2/4 my kids would touch 'em, though!!

I'll second those making their own pizzas - (plus, for me, homemade curried wedges).

When you can make a cheese & tomato pizza for around 70p, it's quite a saving over a takeaway.

And every teenager should be able to make their own pizzas, IMO. It's a skill for life!

As others on this thread will testify, making pizzas is a dead easy activity - here's a pizza recipe calorie counted for the 5:2 WOL.

(And here's a vegan pizza for any lurking vegans! )

To me a salad has everything. And more. Any leaves, different tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, capsicums, any fruit and nuts/seeds you fancy, celery, onions,sweetcorn. We're of the 'more is more' brigade here. Fresh popcorn doesn't work for me, but fair play to son #2, it was an inventive try.

pizzas and garlic bread and salad. No chips no veg apart from that on the pizza

Well one pizza does 4 of us here - 2 adults and 2 primary aged dc. With salad. Chips too for dh.

Really at a whole one each!!

Hmmm - my 14 year old for his dinner tonight had a 14inch (thin base) by himself and still had room for a banana, an apple, a packet of crisps and giant slice of sponge cake, all washed down with a pint of milk.

Four 10" pizzas with chips and pakora from the chippy for 2 adults, 2 teen dds and a wee dd. Usually have some for breakfast left. My oven is too small for home made. Have been known to add spinach salad.

Chips are carbs, but so is garlic bread so surely its just as "weird" having that as a side?

We usually have a pizza each as we like differq toppings, but there's always some left. When I was at uni my housemate and I would often get two large dominoes pizzas EACH when they did two for Tuesday. We'd eat it for every meal until Thursday morning.

Whole one each

We're not a fat family btw

Pizza isn't a bad food, don't do the carb panic either

at one pizza between 4. My family would think that was a starter

Pizza and garlic bread are both Italian in origin though. Chips aren't and just seem wrong and unnecessary to me. It's like food for the sake of food not combining flavours that go well together.

One pizza for 4 seems measly or a giant pizza. I'd over cater pizza rather than under cater. You can always wrap it in foil and stick it in the fridge

If you're doing home made pizzas you can make them any diameter you want so if you have an oven it would be unusual for it to be too small.
For kids in a rush though we often bought ready made bases and just personalised toppings rather than making pizza from scratch which is faffy even with a bread maker for the dough.